Literature

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge · 1992

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3,063·Classic

34 yrs

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1

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Why it endured

A space opera built on the idea that the laws of physics — including intelligence itself — vary by region of the galaxy. The opening chapters depicting a flowering superintelligence are legendary.

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Andrej KarpathyAI researcher & former Tesla AI Director

Only chapter 1, describing a flowering Superintelligence, really awesome read. Later chapters went downhill.

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